Meaning & use
Carl
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A peasant, farmer, or man of humble, common birth (archaic or dialectal English).
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In the old ballad, a poor carl offers the traveling king shelter for the night.
The lord looked down on the carl working the fields below the castle.
A note on using this word
From Old Norse 'karl', meaning a free man of low rank; the word survives today mainly as the given name Carl, though its original common-noun meaning is now archaic.
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